On Fri, 2002-04-26 at 08:10, Andrew Dunbar wrote:
> --- Patrick Lam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On
> Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 04:10:28AM +0100, Andrew
> > Dunbar wrote:
> > > --- Patrick Lam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >
> > > Debian users often get an error 'Could not find
> > > > dictionary for
> > > > en-US'.
> > > >
> > > > The solution is to apt-get install aspell-en.
> > > >
> > > > How do we make this just work?
> > >
> > > Add a dependency to the .deb requiring aspell-en?
> >
> > I don't think that's correct, because not everyone
> > is en-US.
>
> Very good point! Do .debs have a system whereby any
> one of a given set of modules fill a requirement?
> Make the .deb depend on aspell-* and make all the
> aspell modules fill the requirement.
The last time that I used debian was something as 3 years ago, but I
remember that you can add a dependency on a "virtual" package, and let
several packages implement this virtual package.
So the debian package of abiword can have a dependency on
"aspell-dictionary", and make "aspell-{en,es,ca,fr,...}" implement this
dependency.
If my memory serves me right, you can even make this dependency only a
suggestion.
Cheers,
--
Joaqu�n Cuenca Abela
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